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Kakashi was tense as he paced around the room in his house. He didn't know how or why that girl had wormed her way into his head, but he couldn't get her out. Maybe it was because of how scarily similar to her sensei the girl looked. Maybe it was because she just seemed to fall from the sky. Or maybe it was because she looked around the same age as him, but he had never seen her before in his life, yet she still wore a hitai-ate with the leaf village symbol.
Finally, he realized he couldn't just keep pacing all day, and needed to relieve some stress. So he decided the best course of action would be to train alone.
As he entered the training area he usually went to, he saw a flash of yellow. Without thinking he dropped down to the ground and looked through the bushes to see the girl from just a few days ago. She looked fine now as if she hadn't fallen from the sky bloody and bruised just days ago.
She was fighting what looked like herself, but it wasn't just any clone, it was tangible.
'So, she knows the Shadow Clone Jutsu, huh.' He thought to himself as he watched her.
She fought as if she wasn't used to her body. It was almost as if she was used to having longer limbs, but even then, you could tell, taijutsu was not her strong suit. She jumped around and put too much distance between her and her opponent.
He guessed she was more skilled at ninjutsu or genjutsu. After a while though, she seemed to finally get a hang of her body and repeatedly beat the clone.
After a while of that, she moved on to target practice, which she was pretty good at, though Kakashi would never compliment her on it in his lifetime. She hit the middle almost every time. She could even do trick shots with them, and at this point, it just seemed like showing off to no one. Unless...
No, how could she know he was here. He had been completely silent and hadn't moved an inch. She would never be able to know he was her. Of course, that wouldn't be the case if she were a sensor. If she could sense his chakra, she would have known he was here for a while now, and just not done anything. His breath hitched.
She suddenly turned and threw one of her kunai. It hit the tree right above his head. His breath hitched once more.
"You should leave right now, or I won't miss next time." She stated coldly, continuing to practice throwing. An intimidating aura rolled off of her as she spoke and Kakashi decided to make the safe decision and leave. He quickly left, not missing the loud sigh of despair and sadness.
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Naruto silently slipped out of the hospital room and across the rooftops to the training grounds. She decided to work on her taijutsu before anything else, knowing that her smaller frame would be difficult to get used to. She definitely wouldn't be of use in the middle of battle if she couldn't even land one blow on her opponent. Even if taijutsu wasn't exactly her strong suit, she had to at least be able to easily do the basics. She was just beginning to train when she felt a chakra signature nearby.
She recognized it right away. It was Kakashi.
She faltered slightly when the name ran across her mind but finally pulled it together as she noticed he had stopped. He was probably watching and she couldn't let on that she knew he was here, or that she knew him at all. She continued to spar with her clone, eventually getting the hang of her old body again. It was easier than she had thought, and she assumed it was because she had already fought in this size body for years before she finally grew during her training with Ero-Sennin.
At that thought, she decided it was time to practice her kunai throwing. During the war, it was something that was easy to practice, even in enemy territory, though Kakashi and Sakura would always tell her she shouldn't be focusing on anything but the mission. She continued to throw, even getting some of her favorite trick shots to work.
She heard a breath hitch as she threw another one and realized he knew. He had finally figured out that she knew he was there and was just showing off now. She quickly turned around and threw a kunai right above where his head should be if the satisfying thunk was any indication. She heard his breath hitch once more and knew she had hit exactly where she wanted to.
"You should leave right now, or I won't miss next time." She warned him, realizing she wasn't ready to see him quite yet. Not quite ready to face the man she had once loved, even if he was just a young boy right now. She decided that she would face him some other time when she had mentally prepared first. If she saw him now, though, she might just start crying.
As he retreated she sighed a sigh full of regret, despair, and sadness.
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Time And True || A Naruto Fanfiction
Fanfic"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not." - Stephen King --- Naruto Uzumaki had just about had it with the Fourth Shinobi War. She almost wanted to just give up at this point, but so many people had died, so many had given their lives that...
